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As for Japan, I have a feeling it might be the same. Writers in general don't get hardly any attention. I mean I don't see Yoshino hate anywhere near as much on other English forums as much as I do here, though there is some on MAL. The only two writers I think that get talked about a lot if I had to pick will be NishioIsin (since Monogatari is massive over there) and Gen Orobuchi (for Madoka and Fate Zero). .

For whatever it's worth Urobuchi beats the crap out of Okada in google trends

What you mean rejoice??! JC Staff + LN adaptation + Mari Okada... with a harem protaganist in a romcom genre. Dear lord have mercy on us

Atsuko Ishizuka, has a grand total of 1 work where she was the co-director for the animated series of Supernatural. Otherwise she was the episode director for a few Blue Literature episodes.

Inexperienced director, with the most prolific egotistical writer in the anime industry? Yeh, good luck trying to restrain her Ms Ishizuka because it ain't gonna happen. Something tells me I should stay away from this with a 10 ft pole. Make it 100 ft actually. Unfortunately, I'll probably end up watching it and then raging. Okada has me on a leash .

Anyone wanna bet that the main character is gonna emasculated big-time with a trademark "Okada" crossdressing scene snuck in. And traps... definitely traps too.

... Oh, wait, JC Staff adaptation. A Light Novel JC Staff animation at that! And one with a prolific anime original writer with a distinct style on board along with an inexperienced Director...

Welllll... this could be interesting.

She is the bone of my rage.
Tolerance is my body, and patience is my blood.
I have withstood over a thousand trolls.
Unknown to death.
Nor known to life.
Have withstood pain to tolerate many disasters.
Yet, this lunatic will never stop at anything.
So as I collapse, "Unlimited Facepalm Works."

It won't be a harem. Why? Because Okada doesn't write harems, period. In her writing career she's written two series I would call harem: Canvas 2 and Toradora!(And I'd be hard pressed to call Toradora a harem series). So I checked the wikipedia page for the anime and what do you know, it has multiple heterosexual relationships.

As for Atsuko Ishizuka, she most recently worked on Chihayafuru. This will be her second work as director, so it's hard to tell what she is capable of. Plus she's a woman director. Okada may supposedly dislike men, but she may enjoy the female input?

Plus this is an adaptation not an original anime...she would have to jump through a lot of hoops to insert traps where they don't belong.

As for your J.C. Staff + light novel insecurities...well cast has been announced, just be glad there's no Rie Kugimiya?

It won't be a harem. Why? Because Okada doesn't write harems, period. In her writing career she's written two series I would call harem: Canvas 2 and Toradora!(And I'd be hard pressed to call Toradora a harem series). So I checked the wikipedia page for the anime and what do you know, it has multiple heterosexual relationships.

Well if it isn't a harem, well that's one notch down the fear level. Though it still has the romcom tag. Romcom and Okada do not go well together unless if she has a tightass director to go with it (e.g. Nagai) .

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As for Atsuko Ishizuka, she most recently worked on Chihayafuru. This will be her second work as director, so it's hard to tell what she is capable of. Plus she's a woman director. Okada may supposedly dislike men, but she may enjoy the female input?

ANN/MAL lists Morio Asaka as the director for Chihayafuru and it only says that Ms. Ishizuka scripted 2 of the episodes. And the problem with her "man-hating" isn't the fact whether or not her work colleagues will be male or female, but whether the characters within this source material are predominately male or female. From what I can tell, it's a female dominated cast.

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Plus this is an adaptation not an original anime...she would have to jump through a lot of hoops to insert traps where they don't belong

Oh Okada has done outrageous things with her adaptations in her past. See Black Butler for a prime example .

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As for your J.C. Staff + light novel insecurities...well cast has been announced, just be glad there's no Rie Kugimiya?

Yay? But still JC Staff + light novel adaptation. That's like McDonalds introducing their new "healthy" food item on their menu

I'll still watch it likely since it's Okada... and maybe her "trolling" might be enough to amuse me at least for a little while. Just hoping she doesn't bring the worse of her antics

So Okada is working with a female director on a multi-relationship romantic comedy for JC Staff?

List time that happened, we got the excellent Otome Youkai Zakuro. Which as I keep reminding people didn't have the scene from the manga where Kei dresses as a girl. Though I suppose one could argue that Kei is already so much an Okada male that it wasn't necessary. In fact, in some ways, I have to consider Kei the Okada male to end all Okada males, even if he's like that in the manga too.

She is the bone of my rage.
Tolerance is my body, and patience is my blood.
I have withstood over a thousand trolls.
Unknown to death.
Nor known to life.
Have withstood pain to tolerate many disasters.
Yet, this lunatic will never stop at anything.
So as I collapse, "Unlimited Facepalm Works."

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I am the bone of my script
Hiromi is my Body, and Noe is my Blood
I have created over a thousand crossdressers
Unaware of brevity, Nor aware of manliness
Withstood pain to create many trolls, waiting for one's tears
I have no regrets, this is the only path.
My entire life was Unlimited Okada Works.

The ability to create strong storyboards (that's the blueprint for an episode, which lays out what happens, how things are timed, where to position the camera, the number of animation frames used in a shot, etc.) is one of the distinguishing factors between a good and bad director.

Regarding Okada's projects, Ando and Nagai excel in that area, which is why they're held in such high regard. After all, anime is a lot more than just a script.

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She's is (was?) one of the best young talents at Madhouse

Definitely 'was', if she's working on shows outside Madhouse. It doesn't surprise me given how people have fled Madhouse in droves since the business situation changed.

She is the bone of my rage.
Tolerance is my body, and patience is my blood.
I have withstood over a thousand trolls.
Unknown to death.
Nor known to life.
Have withstood pain to tolerate many disasters.
Yet, this lunatic will never stop at anything.
So as I collapse, "Unlimited Facepalm Works."

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I am the bone of my script
Hiromi is my Body, and Noe is my Blood
I have created over a thousand crossdressers
Unaware of brevity, Nor aware of manliness
Withstood pain to create many trolls, waiting for one's tears
I have no regrets, this is the only path.
My entire life was Unlimited Okada Works.